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“sharon beder”

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  • This Little Kiddy Went to Market

    The Corporate Capture of Childhood

    by Sharon Beder, Wendy Varney, Richard Gosden ...
    This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign, transforming children's play into a commercial opportunity and taking advantage of childish anxieties.She ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Principles and Policies

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    by Sharon Beder ...
    Environmental Principles and Policies uses environmental and social principles to analyse the latest wave of economic-based and market-orientated environmental policies currently being adopted around the world. This book provides an in-depth examination of six key principles that have been incorporated into international treaties and the national laws of many countries:* ecological sustainability* ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Suiting Themselves

    How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda

    by Sharon Beder ...
    In this brilliantly researched expos 'communications Rottweiler' Sharon Beder blasts open the backrooms and boardrooms to reveal how the international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. Beder shows how they created business associations andthink tanks in the 1970s to drive public policy, forced the worldwide privatization and deregulation of public services in the 1980s ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Free Market Missionaries

    The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values

    by Sharon Beder ...
    In her recent book Suiting Themselves, bestselling author Sharon Beder exposed how the global corporate elite have brazenly rewritten the rules of the global economy to line their pockets. In this new book she trains her sights on the insidious underbelly of this global trend to show how they have also orchestrated a mass propaganda campaign to manipulate community values and convince us that ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

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    Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy

    by Elizabeth May ...
    A ringing manifesto for change from Canada’s Green Party leader and Activist.We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style prime minister without the checks and balances of either the US or the Canadian systems. Attack ads run constantly, backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike are muzzled ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • At the Centre of Government

    The Prime Minister and the Limits on Political Power

    by Ian Brodie ...
    "Canada's prime minister is a dictator." "The Sun King of Canadian government." "More powerful than any other chief executive of any other democratic country." These kinds of claims are frequently made about Canada's leader – especially when the prime minister's party holds a majority government in Parliament. But is there any truth to these arguments? At the Centre of Government not only presents ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Power

    Where Is It?

    by Donald Savoie ...
    In this informative critique of contemporary leadership, renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located, and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power, making it complicated to determine who is to blame for political and economic catastrophes and leading to ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The New Scramble for Africa

    by Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Honest Politics Now

    What ethical conduct means in Canadian public life

    by Ian Greene ...
    There have been enormous changes in Canadian public life in the past two decades. More and more, politicians and officials are expected to act honestly and in the public interest. Yet, for many, honest politics is still an oxymoron.Using high-profile political scandals as case studies, this book explores the standards of accountability to which Canadian politicians are now being held. The authors ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Honest Politics

    Seeking Integrity in Canadian Political Life

    by Ian Greene, David P. Shugarman ...
    Honest Politics provides a framework for distinguishing right from wrong in politics and supplies some ideas for ensuring that ethical decision-making can be enforced.Greene and Shugarman look at the ethical issues raised by conflicts of interest, patronage, party financing, and lobbyists. They discuss a variety of high-profile cases, including Bill Vander Zalm and Fantasy Gardens, Ralph Klein and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Our Common Interest

    An Argument

    by Commission for Africa ...
    'The Commission for Africa finds the conditions of the lives of the majority of Africans to be intolerable and an affront to the dignity of all mankind. We insist upon an alteration of these conditions through a change of policy in favour of the weak.'The report of the Commission for Africa is the most important document of our time. Created by major decision-makers from across the globe, it is a ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Implications of the Euro

    A Critical Perspective from the Left

    Edited by Mark Baimbridge, Brian Burkitt, Philip Whyman ...
    To date, critical analysis of the EMU project has largely been advanced from the centre-right spectrum of British politics. Comparable questions from the centre-left have failed to find a coherent voice. Although, the European fault-line cannot be characterized as a neat Left-Right issue there are noticeable divisions in opinion across British business, the trade union movement and within the ... Read more

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